Adhesive for insecticides



Patented Feb. 7, 1 939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ADHESIVE FOB INSECTICDES Lyle n. Goo'dhue, Berwyn, Md, dedicated to the free use of the People of the United States of America No Drawing. Application September 26, 1938, 1 Serial No.'231,774

4 Claims.

(Granted under the-act of March a, 1883, as amended April 30,1928; 370 o. G. 157) This application is in part a continuation of my pending application filed April 12, 1937,

Serial No. 136,269.

This application is made under the act ap- 5 proved March 3, 1883, as amended by the act of "United States to take effect on the granting of a patent to me. My invention relates to a new anduseful adhesive which can be used to prevent the removal of sprayed or dusted insecticides and fungicides from plants by rain, windor a combination of'these factors. More particularly my invention relates to a group of chemical compounds or mixtures thereof, which although non-adhesive' when applied to plants with the insecticide, become adhesive, resinous, tacky and insoluble in water after exposure to sunlight.

A large number of substances and compositions of matter have been proposed as adhesives for insecticides applied both as a spray and as a dust. Those used with sprays may consist of emulsions of oils, resins or gums; solutions of sodium silicate or 'soluble gums; suspensions of i starchy substances skimmed milk orcasein and manyothers.

For dusts the number of substances or combinations is considerably limited by the nature of the material. Insecticides applied as dusts must retain. good dusting properties after the incorporation of the material to be used as the adhesive. Non-drying oils have been employed, but only a very small quantity can be mixed with 40 the dust without damage to the dusting properties.- Tacky resins have been used, but only in amounts less than about 3 percent of the weight of the dust. Soaps of heavy metalsandthe compounds forming these soaps have been'used in which case dependence is placed on-the compie tion of a chemical reaction after suiiicient water is obtained from dew or light rains. starchy materials or substances capable of swelling by moisturehave also been'proposed. 4,

My invention can be used with spray insecticides, but it is especially adapted foruse with insecticides applied in the form of adust. One

advantage of my adhesive is'that any amount ofvantage lies in the storage of such dusts containing the adhesive, since it is easy to protect the material from light in inexpensive bags, thus eliminating the difficulties due to caking when adhesives sensitive to moisture are used. 5

Several methods of incorporation with the insecticide may be used. For-use with dusts simple mixing of the dry powdered light sensitive compoundwith the insecticides gives good results.

A better practice, however, is to grind the in- 10 secticide with the adhesive in a ball mill or other.

afiective grinding machine. A still better but, more complicated method of incorporation is to add the light sensitive adhesive to the dry insecticide in the form of a solution in water or 15 organic solvents.

After removal of the solvent the-"adhesive and insecticide mixture is pulverized before dusting. An amount of adhesive equal to from 5 to 25 percent of the weight of the insecticide is recommended. 420

For use with spray insecticides, the light so sitive composition may be dissolved in the water or addeddn the form of a suspension, depend ing on the solubility of the substance-to beused as the adhesive. 25 In practicing my invention, I may use condensation products of furfural'with ketones, such as furfural-acetone, furfural -methyl ethyl lretone, furfural-acetophenone, furfural benzophenone and furfural Z-naphthyl ketone. Small amounts 30 of catalysts which accelerate the'reaction, such as iodoformor' cupric chloride may be used as sensitizers. V

- The above materials have been tested and found to givetacky'resins' in from 1 to 4 hours 35 exposure to daylight. During a test period of one week when the .amount of rainfall was 0.95 inch from 50. to percent of the insecticide was I retained using the above materials as adhesives.

group consisting o! acetone, methyle'thyl-ketone, ,acetophenone, benzophenone and Z-naphthyl ketone. v 5o -2. An adhesive for insecticides comprising the J reaction product oi furi'ural with aeetone.-

3. An adhesivefor insecticides comprising the reaction 'product of furtural wlthacetophenone.

4.1m adhesive for insecticides comprising the ,3

reaction product. of iuri'ural wlth 'il-naphthyl' ketone. Y 1.

' LYLE D. GOODHUE. 

